Joining Pat on this week's Friday Forum was Ivana Bacik, Leader of the Labour Party, Spokesperson on Environment and Climate; Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and TD for Dublin Bay South, Kathleen Funchion, Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Children and Youth Affairs, Chair of the Oireachtas Children and Youth Affairs Committee and TD for Carlow-Kilkenny and Senator Shane Cassels, Senator based in Meath West, Spokesperson on Media, Arts, Sport, Tourism and the Gaeltacht and father of three young children.